There is an urgency to explore and structure innovative financial mechanisms like SRI sukuk to develop waqf properties and assets because if this is delayed, many opportunities in enhancing social welfare and economic development will be missed. SRI sukuk can be innovatively structured to support financing the development waqf assets into viable income-generating assets that can help with social programmes, and at the same time, maximise the potential of sukuk in achieving the objectives (maqasid) of Islamic finance. The study aims to explore SRI sukuk models that could be implemented to develop waqf properties and assets under the SRI sukuk framework in Malaysia ...